US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on June 2 for "Techniques for operating a kinematic structure by manual motion of link coupled to the kinematic structure" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,614, issued on June 2, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Techniques for operating a kinematic structure by manual motion of link coupled to the kinematic structure" was invented by Paul Griffiths (Santa Clara, Calif.), Paul Mohr (Mountain View, Calif.), Nitish Swarup (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Michael Costa (Los Angeles), David Larkin (Menlo Park, Calif.), Thomas Cooper (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Michael Hanuschik (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for operating a kinematic structure by manual motion of a link coupled to the kinematic structure include a system comprising a ...